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Waterfall and Agile Comparison
Waterfall Agile
Project manager serves as Agile project manager
Project an active leader by (or Scrum Master) acts manager's role prioritizing and assigning primarily as a facilitator, tasks to team members. removing any barriers the team faces.
Team shares more
responsibility in managing their own work.
Scope Project deliverables and Planning happens in
plans are well-established shorter iterations and and documented in the focuses on delivering early stages of initiating value quickly. and planning. Subsequent iterations Changes go through a are adjusted in response formal change request to feedback or process. unforeseen issues.
Schedule Follows a mostly linear Time is organized into
path through the initiating, phases called Sprints. planning, executing, and Each Sprint has a closing phases of the defined duration, with a project. set list of deliverables planned at the start of the Sprint.
Cost Costs are kept under Costs and schedule
control by careful could change with each estimation up front and iteration. close monitoring throughout the life cycle of the project. Quality Project manager makes Team solicits ongoing plans and clearly defines stakeholder input and criteria to measure quality user feedback by testing at the beginning of the products in the field and project. regularly implementing improvements.
Communication Project manager Team is customer-
continually communicates focused, with consistent progress toward communication between milestones and other key users and the project indicators to stakeholders, team. ensuring that the project is on track to meet the customer’s expectations.
Stakeholders Project manager Team frequently
continually manages and provides deliverables to monitors stakeholder stakeholders throughout engagement to ensure the the project. Progress project is on track. toward milestones is dependent upon stakeholder feedback.